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Honor International
Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People with Action

Dear Dick,

Today, on the
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, member group
CodePink is launching an exciting campaign --Boycott RE/MAX: No Open
House on Stolen Land -- with a Global Week of Action Nov. 29 - Dec. 5!

RE/MAX is a real estate giant thatmarkets and rents properties in
illegal Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land. While
Palestinian homes and olive groves are bulldozed to make way for new
housing units, RE/MAX is profiting from settlement expansion throughout the
West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

For the next 7 days, people around the world are coming together to send a
message to RE/MAX to stop profiting from occupation and stolen land. Will
you join the efforts to condemn RE/MAX worldwide? Here's how:Visit www.BoycottREMAX.org to endorse the campaign (as an individual or organization) and check out lots
of campaign resources!

Last month SodaStream, an Israeli company
that manufactures home carbonating devices, announced that in 2015 it was
going to berelocating its factory currently based in
an illegal settlement in the West Bank. The company has been the target
of boycott campaignsworldwide for exploiting
Palestinian land, labor, and resources.

SodaStream has had a rough year as its
stock price has been dropping and its revenues decreasing. This news is
just the latest sign that global BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions)
campaigns are having an impact on companies that profit
from Israeli occupation and apartheid.

SodaStream organizers are gearing up to do a Month of
ActionNovember 28 (Black Friday) through December 24 to
keep the pressure on the company until it actually shuts down the factory
and to let consumers know that until that happens, its products are still
being manufactured in an illegal settlement.

This is also an opportunity to bring
attention to the role SodaStream's factory in the Naqab (Negev) desert
plays in the Israeli government's plans to displace Palestinian Bedouins
and the unfair labor practices in that factory that impact
their workers, many of whom are Bedouin women.

This time of year is
also a busy one for online shoppers, withCyber Monday happening December
1. Are you interested in taking part in Twitter or other social media
actions? Do you have design experience and would like to help create some
graphics? Email me if you want to volunteer!

There will be plenty
of other opportunities to take action, including a national
call-in day on December 10, Human Rights Day, to the corporate
headquarters of stores to urge them to stop selling SodaStream. Macy's
has already deshelved SodaStream products, and it is time other stores
follow suit. RSVP on Facebookto receive updates
about planned actions, find resources, and share pictures and videos.

Join us as CODEPINK and
a coalition of organizations launch the new Boycott, Divestment
and Sanction (BDS) campaign No Open House on Stolen Land.
This campaign targets the Denver-based real estate company
RE/MAX for selling homes in illegal settlements in
the occupied West Bank. To mark the International Day of Solidarity with
the Palestinian people on November 29, CODEPINK launched the week
of action from November 29-Dec 5. Join us on December 5th to
demand that RE/MAX cut ties with franchises profiting from the sale of
settlement homes and displacement of the Palestinian people.

Following the American
Studies Association's endorsement of a boycott of Israeli academic
institutions, and the ongoing debate in the Modern Language Association
over a resolution to censure Israel's violations of academic freedom, the
Steering Committee of HAW began considering what (if any) action we should
take.

After an extensive discussion, we agreed that the most appropriate
process was for the Steering Committee to vote on whether HAW as an
organization should publicly endorse BDS ("a campaign of boycotts,
divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it complies with
international law and Palestinian rights" -- BDS movement website,http://www.bdsmovement.net/).

The majority of the SC has voted "yes" on this motion,
committing us to begin work. This was not a simple decision; some members spoke
strongly in favor of the position taken by historians Linda Gordon, Alice
Kessler-Harris, and Elaine Tyler May, that an academic and cultural boycott was
counter-productive and would be divisive, and that US activists should focus on
US policy, in particular its military support for Israel's illegal occupation.
Others countered that we can, in fact, do both, that the boycott was the
call of Palestinian civil society which deserves to be heeded, and that it will
have the greatest effect inside Israel,
in terms of motivating a turn to real negotiations and an end to the
occupation.

We support an academic boycott (of institutions & their
funding streams, not of individuals) because most large universities in Israel have
been helping the Israeli government to use academic research as a cover for
propaganda. Israel's government has pushed ahead aggressively on archaeological
excavations that expropriate Muslim holy sites and Palestinian village lands,
and much “archaeological research” in East Jerusalem and elsewhere has
proceeded with the financial backing of right-wing Israeli foundations, through
university conduits. The area around the Western Wall, e.g., has been
designated an "ArchaeologicalPark" by the Israeli government, consolidating
Israeli ownership of a space that has in the past been shared with Arabs; Hebron has similarly
designated nearby Palestinian lands “archaeological sites.” The trick is well
known and understood by Israelis (see, for instance,http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.567898). We as
historians need to counter this falsification of academic research.

What shall we do now? How should this decision be
implemented? Actions in support of the academic and cultural boycott, and more
generally against the occupation of Palestinian lands, are an entirely new
arena of work for HAW, and we need to recruit a group of members who want to
develop a program. We propose the following steps:

1. Form a working group of people interested in challenging the
Israeli occupation of Palestine, and US support
for Israel,
including work on an academic and cultural boycott;

Nominations for the 2015 Richard A. Yarborough Award for Outstanding Mentoring due
... The American
Studies Association is one of several academic associations that have been asked to
... 2) Why boycott Israeli academic institutions?

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